NFTs


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Neil Strauss Pens the Bored Ape Yacht Club ‘Tell-All’

What does it mean to write a memoir about a group of NFT avatars that kind of exists but kind of doesn’t? The author of “Pickup Artists” (and nine other books) tells Jeff Wilser. This article is part of CoinDesk Culture Week.

Artist's rendition of a Bored Ape NFT. (Adam Levine/CoinDesk)

Learn

5 Ways to Earn Passive Income From NFTs

Forget selling your NFTs. Now, you can make your unique digital items work for you.

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Finance

McDonald’s McRib NFT Project Links to Racial Slur Recorded on Blockchain

A company needs to weigh the risks and rewards when deciding to create NFTs.

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Policy

How ‘Intelligent’ NFTs Raise Some Red Flags

AI NFTs will soon flood the market, but the vast majority are not going to succeed.

(Alexi Rosenfeld, Getty Images)

Finance

The Two Miami Art Weeks

At Miami’s Art Basel, the traditional art crowd came face-to-face with the crypto invasion.

NFT stickers covered the city.

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Most Influential 2021: Beeple

Digital artist Mike Winkelmann brought NFTs into the limelight.

(Adam Levine/CoinDesk)

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Most Influential 2021: Matt Hall and John Watkinson

Larva Labs, the creator of CryptoPunks, is working with a Hollywood powerhouse to expand the NFT brand.

(Adam Levine/CoinDesk)

Finance

Play-to-Earn Platform Rainmaker Nabs $6.5M Seed Round

CoinFund and others are backing Rainmaker’s plans to ease access to hundreds of play-to-earn crypto games.

(Madhu Shesharam/Unsplash)

Finance

Metaverse Goes Hollywood With Universal Music Group Avatar Partnership

Avatar company Genies has inked a deal with UMG that could bring celebrity merch from Rihanna, Migos and more into virtual worlds.

Genies avatars of Quavo, Kim Petras, J Balvin and Lil Huddy. (Genies)

Finance

Microsoft Leads $27M Funding Round for Palm NFT Studio

The Web 2 giant’s venture arm thinks enterprise demand for tokenized art will stick around.

(Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images)